Transmission of narcissism, aging therapists & modern healthcare from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear Colleagues,

Back from summer vacations, we are confronted with the realities of our working lives. As I wrote last week, if you can distance yourselves from the stresses of work and from the excitement of the political conventions, the international psychoanalysis website is a welcome relief even while it provides information on psychosocial aspects of what ails our society.

Please note that I have not repeated some of the announcements which had been posted previously.

As always I have chosen a few of the posts to highlight:

 1) If at all possible, I would suggest that you try to attend the IPTAR meeting with Haydee Faimberg, which promises to be a real treat.
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2) Please read The Strange Story Of The Man Behind ‘Strange Fruit’- and the foster home that “really worked out”!
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3) Samuel Eisentstein’s essay on “The Aging of therapists” is a must read.
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4) The Carlat Psychiatry Blog offers a thoughtful post on healthcare in “be careful what you wish for”
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5) Toxoplasmosis lined to later suicidality?
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6) NB two posts on rape – in peace & wartime.
Click Here to Read This Articl on Rape in Peacetime  

Click Here to Read This Articl on Rape in Wartime

7) Are autistic children at risk for bullying ? yes but more or less?
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below is the complete list of posts for this week.

 

 

A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:

I. The Contributions of Hayd*e Faimberg With Hayd*e Faimberg, Mary Libbey, Jay Frankel at IPTAR

Friday, September 7th, 2012

SAVE THE DATE!

IPTAR’s Investigative Section and Program Committee are very pleased to announce an evening devoted to

The Contributions of Hayd*e Faimberg With Hayd*e Faimberg, Mary Libbey, Jay Frankel

Date: Friday evening, January 11, 2013

Location: TBA

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

II. Lewis Aron & Karen Starr, Oct. 18th at AIP

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS

OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER

329 East 62nd Street New York, NY 10065

(212) 838-8044 www.aipnyc.org aipkh@aol.com

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Our Work Continues

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SCIENTIFIC MEETING

Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM

Lewis Aron & Karen Starr: A “PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR THE PEOPLE”: TOWARD A PROGRESSIVE PSYCHOANALYSIS

How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy? How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is ….

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

III. Psychoanalysis & Sexual Issues with Mark Blechner at WCSPP

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

B. In the ART Category:

IV. Photography Friday: Hamed Sufi

“Light and Obscure” by Hamed Sufi. Mr. Sufi graduated in Pharmacy in Tehran, Iran

If you would like to have your photography considered for internationalpsychoanalysis.net’s Photography Friday, please send your jpeg images to Joel Seligmann. the Photography Editor.

 

To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

V. Salom*, Wilde, and Freud

on the Inklings website on February 9, 2012.

 

To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:

VI. The Strange Story Of The Man Behind ‘Strange Fruit’

by Elizabeth Blair from NPR on September 5, 2012.

One of Billie Holiday’s most iconic songs is “Strange Fruit,” a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of a lynching. But they might not realize that he’s also tied to another watershed moment in America’s history.

 

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

VII. Chasing perfection: A look behind the scenes of the pre-teen world of competitive cheerleading

by Jackie Freidman from The Star-Ledger via NBC News on August 25, 2012.

To read and view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

VIII. Psychoanalysis and its Borders

edited by Giuseppe Leo (2012), Video on YouTube.

To read and view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

IX. What is psychotherapy anyway? A dialogue between psychoanalysts

a) What is psychotherapy anyway? A dialogue between psychoanalysts by Gerald J. Gargiulo on YouTube.

b) Becoming a Psychotherapist: Autobiography by Gerald J. Gargiulo on YouTube.

To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

D. In the BOOKS Category:

 

X. Living Longer; Practicing How?

Before Labor Day, we ran a paper documenting that analysts live longer than other related professions.

Analyst Living Longer, but How Do We Practice.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

But, what about what and how well we practice in these later years? Fisher and Hoffs bring us Samuel Eisenstein’s paper on the aging therapist. Eisenstein, like his colleague Alexander, was a refugee; the first Rumanian, the second Hungarian. They brought wisdom with them that flourished in Los Angeles’ soil.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XI. Kingsley Hall: RD Laing’s experiment in anti-psychiatry Monday, September 3rd, 2012

by Sean O’Hagan in The Observer on September 1, 2012

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XII. Rediscovering Groups: A Psychoanalyst’s Journey Beyond Individual Psychology

by Marshall Edelson and David N. Berg on Google Books

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

E. In the CHINA Category:

 

XIII. How Chinese Leaders Steer a Massive Nation

by Sandra Schulz in Spiegel Online on August 31st, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

F. In the EDITORIALS Category:

XIV. Labor Day Exposes a Cruel Choice Facing Mothers of Premature Infants

by Zina Steinberg, EdD from Psychology Today on September 6, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XV. Saving Obama, Saving Ourselves

by Peace Exchange Bulletin reporter, Tom Hayden, via Reader Supported News on September 6, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XVI. Be Careful What You Wish For

by Steve Balt, MD from Thought Broadcast on September 2, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XVII. How to better understand your style of humor

Edward Hoffman, PH.D. from The Japan Times on September 4, 2012.

Have you had a good laugh lately? Anything funny happen to you this week? And, what types of jokes makes you chuckle the most? Such questions are increasingly the focus of scientific research — for evidence is now piling up that our sense of humor directly affects our well-being.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XVIII. Putting the Plan into Action: How China’s Leaders Steer a Massive Nation

by Sandra Schulz from Der Spiegel on August 31, 2012.

There is no question that China is an authoritarian state. But Beijing’s efforts to include experts and experiments in the way it governs also help to keep power in check. Once the government supports a project, it normally carries it out — sometimes on a massive scale. Are there lessons to be taken from the Communist Party’s method of governance?

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XIX. Do Psychology Students Perpetuate the Stigma Surrounding Therapy?

by GoodTherapy.org on August 29, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

G. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:

XX. Hospital Got Hang-up Call Before Colo. Shooting

by P. Solomon Banda from The Associated Press by ABC News on August 31, 2012.

The University of Colorado Hospital said Friday that no one at its switchboard talked to the movie theater shooting suspect in the minutes before the attack, but a caller did hang up without saying anything around that time.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXI. We never talk any more: The problem with text messaging

By Jeffrey Kluger on the Time Magazine website on August 31, 2012,

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXII. What young men still don’t get about rape

By Amitai Etzion on the CNN website on August 29, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXIII. At Least Fun in the Sun Isn’t Banned. For Now…

By Brooks Barnes and Michael Cieply in The New York Times on September 2, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXIV. YouTube’s Moodwall matches videos to feelings

By Heather Kelly, CNN on August 31, 2012 .

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXV. Sigmund Freud, C.S. Lewis, and a World of Hurt

by Anthony Sacramone on the Strange Herring Website on September 1, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXVI. An Effort Aims to Use Biomarkers to Pinpoint PTSD

By James Dao in the New York Times on August 30, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXVII. Dental care in America: A study in austerity, neglect and profiteering

By Gary Joad on the World Socialist Web Site on September 1, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXVIII. Rape, Murder and Genocide: Nazi War Crimes as Described by German Soldiers

By Jan Fleischhauer on the Der Spiegel website on April 8, 2011.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

H. In the MOVIES Category:

 

XXIX. The Killer Killeth, Review by Harvey Roy Greenberg

Review of the Movie Footnote, Reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg.

“An earlier version of this article appeared in Clinical Psychiatry News.”

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXX. Rodriguez: The Question is the Answer Review by Harvey Roy Greenberg

“An earlier version of this review/essay appeared in Clinical Psychiatry News.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

I. In the MUSIC Category:

XXXI. Music of the Unquiet Mind

by Margaret Leng Tan from The New York Times on September 1, 2012.

Margaret Leng Tan is a pianist who specializes in the interpretation and performance of the works of John Cage. She will perform “Four Walls” on Sept. 8 at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art as part of the John Cage Centennial Festival in Washington. More of her work can be found at her Web site, margaretlengtan.com.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXXII. CD Review: Cast Album – Ciivilization and its Discontents

by Jack Goodstein on the BC Culture wbesite on September 03, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

J. In the PAPERS Category:

XXXIII. Ellen Pinsky on Psychoanalytic “Love Juice” in Threepenny Review

Ellen Pinsky on Psychoanalytic “Love Juice”

Remember Bottom, the ass who begins to believe he is handsome when intoxicated Queen Titania treats him handsomely? Yes, the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Ellen Pinsky directs us to Shakespeare to think about the too abstract phrase, erotic transference, an experience more toxic than the words grasp, what Freud referred to as combustible.

Let’s listen to what she conjures us. Then, click the link at the end of the article to read more in Threepenny Review.

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Psychoanalysis by Ellen Pinsky

How does the thing work? Two people meet privately and regularly; they….

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________ .

XXXIV. Nothing that is Human is Alien to Me: Neoliberalism and the End of Bildung

by Illinois State University-Chicago English Professor, Ronald Strickland.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

K. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:

 

XXXV. ‘Colors of Confinement’:

a) Japanese internment camp photographs by Bill Manbo

b) accompanying article by May-Ying Lam, from The Washington Post on August 31, 2012.

To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

L. In the POETRY Category:

XXXVI. POETRY MONDAY: September 3, 2012

 

Welcome back, everyone. Our featured poet today is Alice Kociemba, who has been a practicing psychodynamic psychotherapist for thirty years. She makes her home on Cape Cod, where she directs an outstanding and well-known poetry reading series at the West Falmouth Public Library.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

M. In the SCIENCE NEWS category:

 

XXXVII. More Evidence Links Common Parasite to Suicidal Behavior

August 21, 2012 — Individuals infected with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite are at significant risk for later suicide attempts, new research suggests.

A cohort study of 84 adults from Sweden showed that those who had been infected with T gondii were 7 times more likely to participate in nonfatal, self-directed violence compared with their counterparts who had not been infected.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXXVIII. Few doctors know how to treat addiction. A new program aims to change that.

by Sandra G. Boodman from The Washington Post on September 3, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XXXIX. School Bullies Prey on Children with Autism

by Anahad O’Connor from The New York Times on September 3, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XL. New fossils support a multiple-species view of early human evolution

by Philip Guelpa from World Socialist Web Site on August 31, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XLI. Are Writing the Epilogue to the World We Knew

We Knew by John Atcheson on the Common Dreams website on August 31, 2012

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

N. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:

XLII. The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Jonathan Shedler at CFS Contemporary Freudian Society – NY Division Annual Conference

Sunday, October 21, 2012, 1:00 – 5:00 pm, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Avenue & 100th Street

The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The Talking Cure in the Era of Prozac, Managed Care, and Evidence-Based Practice

Jonathan Shedler, PhD, presenter

 

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

In conclusion, I will ask you to please write your comments on the website. Like the USA, this is an active participation website – the more you contribute and comment, the better it is!

Respectfully submitted by

Sasha Rolde